Exhibition talks: Max Dupain

Gallery experts, artists and Dupain’s contemporaries

Join us for a very special series where each month Gallery staff, historians and those who knew Max Dupain will give short talks considering key works in the exhibition Max Dupain: the Paris 'private’ series and other pictures.

Alex Gawronski, artist and academic

Contemporary artist, writer and academic at Sydney College of the Arts, Alex joins us to consider the influence of Dupain upon Australian photographers past and present. He will also relate Dupain’s Paris experiences to his own having undertaken a studio residency at the Cité des arts where he also responded to the city through photography.

Wednesday 11 June 2014
5:30pm – 6pm

Penelope Seidler AM, architect

Penelope is an architect and director of Harry Seidler & Associates. She joins us to talk about the photographs from an architectural and personal perspective, recounting tales of Dupain’s trip to Paris with her late husband. Dupain’s photographs from this trip with Harry Seidler in 1978, known as the Paris 'private’ series, make up the majority of this exhibition.

Wednesday 9 July 2014
5:30pm – 6pm

Anne Gerard-Austin, study room coordinator

Anne is an art historian and the study room coordinator at the Art Gallery of NSW. As a Parisian expat, Anne knows the city intimately and will consider the iconic landmarks and architecture that Dupain chose to capture. Join Anne as she traces how Dupain negotiated the city and its monuments.